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‘The spotlight is focused on jazz or Afro-Cuban fusion or Celtic dance music or rai.’

Phrases

dance attendance on

Do one's utmost to please someone by attending to all their requests.

‘she's got that man dancing attendance on her’

‘Essex's determination not simply to dance attendance on his ageing sovereign captured the public imagination and won him a large following among soldiers.’

‘If you're so concerned, why don't you stop dancing attendance on the man and go your own way?’

‘I do love you, Sue, though I have danced attendance on you so long for such poor returns!’

‘It is odd how they happily dance attendance on unelected newspaper editors, television interviewers and City tycoons.’

‘A typical snipe observed: ‘He finds it absolutely impossible to grovel lower than he has, to further bait his race, to dance attendance on the Golden Calf, to sing the praises of those he loathes and hates and fears.’’

‘There was no post for him there, however, so he moved on to Paris and danced attendance on various members of the nobility.’